Popper’s Evolutionary Therapy to Meno’s Paradox. Saraswat, L. & Sirola, V. Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 36(1):151–166, 2019. doi abstract bibtex Meno’s paradox raises serious challenges against most fundamental epistemological quest regarding the possibility of inquiry and discovery. In his response, Socrates proposes the theory of anamnesis and his ingenious distinction between doxa and episteme. But, he fails in his attempt to solve the paradox and some recent responses have also not succeeded in settling it, satisfactorily. We shall argue that epistemological issues approached in a Darwinian spirit offer a therapeutic resolution without rejecting the basic tenets of Plato’s epistemology. Drawing from Popper’s evolutionary theory of knowledge, Darwinism is regarded as a metaphysical research program, rather than using it to collapse Plato’s metaphysics into biology. © 2018, Indian Council of Philosophical Research.
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abstract = {Meno’s paradox raises serious challenges against most fundamental epistemological quest regarding the possibility of inquiry and discovery. In his response, Socrates proposes the theory of anamnesis and his ingenious distinction between doxa and episteme. But, he fails in his attempt to solve the paradox and some recent responses have also not succeeded in settling it, satisfactorily. We shall argue that epistemological issues approached in a Darwinian spirit offer a therapeutic resolution without rejecting the basic tenets of Plato’s epistemology. Drawing from Popper’s evolutionary theory of knowledge, Darwinism is regarded as a metaphysical research program, rather than using it to collapse Plato’s metaphysics into biology. © 2018, Indian Council of Philosophical Research.},
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journal = {Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research},
author = {Saraswat, L. and Sirola, V.S.},
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keywords = {Apriorism, Evolutionary epistemology, Ignorance, Meno’s paradox, Popper},
pages = {151--166},
}
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